Japanese Postverbal Constructions Revisited

摘要

There are two types of possible approaches to the derivation of Japanese Postverbal Constructions (JPVCs): (i) movement and (ii) base-generation. Certain base-generation analyses can account for properties of JPVCs that movement analyses fail to, such as split antecedency. These properties are explained by interface conditions and a licensing condition for adjoined elements, on the basis of the claim that postverbal elements are adjoined to preceding phrases by external Merge.